2025 Touring Car Thread - BTCC, TCR, and more.Touring Cars 

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Hopefully Cook can find a drive as well, speculation in Autosport that he has a seat from Knockhill onward.
Back on the grid with Toyota. Tough on Dorlin who he's replacing (thought it might be Buxton), but I guess that's all to do with funding.

 
Both Sutton and Cammish will be running Valvoline throwback liveries this weekend at Donnington.


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Sutton vs Ingram - door banging, rubbing is racing, absolute ding dong battle in race 3.
 

Here we go again.
Wait, the Power Maxed Racing whose entire facility just burned down? How are they going to pull this off?

TOCA junior has failed once already and it never even got going, I see no reason to expect this to go a different way. Why they are intent on building a car from scratch when there are so many good, affordable options out there already, I do not know. When teams/drivers can't afford to run Clio Cup or Ginetta are struggling to put fields together and the Mini Challenge hasn't really supported BTCC effectively, how do they expect those same teams/drivers to front up even more cash for a bespoke car in a bespoke series that may ultimately have no function outside of being a TOCA junior/BTCC support package? Especially with numbers in the BTCC dwindling as the costs increase there.
 
Wait, the Power Maxed Racing whose entire facility just burned down? How are they going to pull this off?
Judging from the image, by finding a generative AI and using the prompt "an MX-5/F-Type racing car with just the wildest roll cage in history". Perhaps then can use GenAI to create the results too.
 
Wait, the Power Maxed Racing whose entire facility just burned down? How are they going to pull this off?

TOCA junior has failed once already and it never even got going, I see no reason to expect this to go a different way. Why they are intent on building a car from scratch when there are so many good, affordable options out there already, I do not know. When teams/drivers can't afford to run Clio Cup or Ginetta are struggling to put fields together and the Mini Challenge hasn't really supported BTCC effectively, how do they expect those same teams/drivers to front up even more cash for a bespoke car in a bespoke series that may ultimately have no function outside of being a TOCA junior/BTCC support package? Especially with numbers in the BTCC dwindling as the costs increase there.
So...

Andy Rouse's SCV8 Series
Jonathan Palmer's Touring 1 Series
BTEC Development Series
TOCA Junior Series

...all have one thing in common.

They all failed to get off the ground.

Good luck, PMR, you're going to need it!
 
Big shock for Silverstone Qualifying, with Tingram missing out on Q2 by less than 0.1s.

Cammish and Chilton at the back after a failed ride height check, but worse for Tingram is Sutton has made it through.

Edit: And that's Sutton out in Q2, a rare spin and never had the pace to do better than 12th
 
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And that's a first Pole for DeLeon with Shedden 2nd for TGR.

Toyota's looking a lot better this weekend now they're running the M-Sport engine. Fascinating final session with the rain

A pretty unexpected top 6 to be fair, no complaints though.
 
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12th Sutton, 14th Ingram for race 1.

Morgan in the middle and he’ll surely get out of the way of his Vertu leader. One other teammate for each in the top 10.
 
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